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Darcy Pohland spoke with Julia, a 17-year-old high school student. Julia said she has not cut herself for five months.

Some, like Julia, scarred themselves on the outside to ease the emotional scars on the inside.

"Your arm is just so small compared to the emotional thing inside you," said Julia, at right.

Nick, 18, told WCCO-TV he would use anything with a sharp edge to cut himself. Razor blades. Exact-O knives.

" . . . Anything with a sharp surface or sharp edge," he said. "Then, you know, if there was a cut just continue further, deeper.

"Finally, after a while, you get so tired of the emotional pain, physical pain is better."

One teen told Pohland she was hospitalized one or two times after deliberately harming herself.

"I've used knives. I've used glass," said another girl.

Julia got professional help. Since then, she's been following this mantra: "You have to start thinking with your head, instead of with your hands."

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